Osaka City and Osaka Prefecture introduced several large-scale business site and technopole development projects in the 1980s and 1990s that appeared to be failures. This development was designed by the politico-administrative establishment of the Osaka area in order to claim their share of...

In this paper, the transformation of Kista from a high-tech industrial park to a science city is described. Kista's transformation into a science city in the early 2000s was quick and well-managed. Kista gained international recognition as the boldest venture of the new generation of science...

Industry has a particular responsibility to shape the transformation from our current economy into an ecologically and socially sustainable one. The ongoing digitalization and networking of industrial value chains as the core of Industry 4.0 offer new opportunities and capabilities for...

Digital transformation is not only a field for the engineering sciences alone. Instead, this issue should be understand in all its facets. This, in particular with regard to human resources and political area.Beside this, the digital transformation has an important geopolitical dimension. China,...

Industry 4.0 is a subject with global implications. Essentially, the concept comes down to the reorganisation and automation of value chains. If successfully implemented, industry 4.0 sets out to revolutionise the way goods and services are created and distributed, reshaping the industrial...

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging politics, society and the economy to an unprecedented extent. Its effects are so drastic that it requires companies and industries not only to manage the crisis in the short term, but also to develop strategic options for the future. Although we have not...

Company executives rely on new product development teams to carry out their directives and make decisions according to management’s goals and objectives. However, new product team members bring their own motivational perspectives to strategic decisions. This research examines how individual...

Across the globe, renewable energy policy is changing. The change is coming so quickly that it appears the world is now on the cusp of a new future. The renewable energy policy of the past is on its way out; a new and different policy is taking its place. That new policy has different end goals,...

This paper examines the spectacular rise of 'fintech' (financial technology), an innovation that constitutes an historic discontinuity in the structure, operations and conduct of financial systems everywhere. We provide a much-needed corrective to the rapidly proliferating myths and falsehoods...

Genetically modified (GM) crops have been and continue to be a subject of controversy despite their rapid adoption by farmers where approved. For the last two decades, an important matter of debate has been their impact on pesticide use, particularly for herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops. Some claim...